From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 00:35:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEF016A4CE; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:35:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA37843D1F; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:35:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mheffner@vt.edu) Received: from steiner.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-steiner.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.14]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0A0ZpGM023706; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:35:51 -0500 Received: from hedwig.fesnel.no-ip.org (69-162-154-246.chvlva.adelphia.net [69.162.154.246]) by steiner.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id CFE61201 (AUTH mheffner); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:35:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5-DEVEL on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20050109095304.GD836@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:33:19 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Heffner To: Stefan Farfeleder , tjr@freebsd.org, freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: standards/55112: glob.h, glob_t's gl_pathc should be "size_t", not "int". X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:35:52 -0000 What is the policy for how long to wait after a LIBC major bump before addressing ABI issues? Currently standards/55112 and an issue with kludge code in gen/genhostname.c were waiting for a bump before being addressed. The bump occurred 2 months ago, is it too late to fix these issues? On 09-Jan-2005 Stefan Farfeleder wrote: > Maybe now the change should be done as libc was bumped two months ago? > > Mike -- Mike Heffner